Media
Newspapers in Ahmedabad include Hindi dailies as Herald Young Leader, Metro Herald, and English dailies such as The Times of India, Indian Express, DNA, The Economic Times and The Financial Express, AM. Newspapers in other languages (Gujarati and Hindi) include Divya Bhaskar, Gujarat Samachar, Sandesh,Sukan Samachar, Rajasthan Patrika, Sambhaav, Aankhodekhi and Metro. The city is home to the historic Navajivan Publishing House, which was founded in 1919 by Mahatma Gandhi.
The state-owned All India Radio Ahmedabad is broadcast both on the medium wave and FM bands (96.7 MHz) in the city. It competes with five private local FM stations: Radio City (91.1 MHz), Red FM (93.5 MHz), My fm (94.3 MHz), Radio One (95.0 MHz), Radio Mirchi (98.3 MHz). Gyan Vani (104.5 MHz) is an educational FM radio station run under media cooperation model. In March, 2012 Gujarat University started campus radio service on 90.8 MHz which was first kind of it in state and fifth in India.
The state-owned television broadcaster Doordarshan provides free terrestrial channels, while two multi system operators—InCablenet and Siti Cable—provide a mix of Gujarati, Hindi, English, and other regional channels via cable. Telephone services are provided by landline and mobile operators such as BSNL, Reliance CDMA & Reliance GSM, Airtel, Uninor, Docomo, Videocon, Aircel, Vodafone, Idea, MTS India and Tata Indicom.
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